The Science of Training Your Attention | Dr. Amishi Jha

How to stay focused, fight distraction, and function at your peak.

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Dr. Amishi Jha is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She serves as the Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, which she co-founded in 2010. Dr Jha is the author of the national bestseller, Peak Mind. 

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In this episode we talk about:

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• What peak mind is
• Why meta awareness is important to practice and achieve peak mind
• The suite of mindfulness-based attention training practices
• Why humans developed attention in the first place
• Using the flashlight and floodlight metaphors to help us understand different types of attention
• The mental pushup for attention: focus, notice, and redirect
• The attention benefits for high stress populations who engage in contemplatives practices
• Multitasking vs. monotasking
• The real life and death consequences of confirmation bias
• Part of the reason why we may be experiencing a crisis of attention 
• Giving our mind the freedom to choose where it goes next

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